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Open-weights AI

Open-weights and open-source model releases, Hugging Face trends, local models and self-hosting. 71 stories in today’s issue from 16 outlets, ranked by heat.

01Top Open-weights AI stories today

From issue #006, November 6, 2026. Filter the live feed.

RepoGitHubheat77

calesthio/OpenMontage

World's first open-source, agentic video production system. 12 production pipelines, 100+ tools, 700+ agent skill and production-knowledge files. Turn your AI coding assistant into a full video production studio.

77k+4.1k this weekPython10k
NewsThe DecoderNEWheat67

Baidu releases ERNIE 5.5 Flash Base with 280 billion parameters as an open-source foundation model

Baidu releases ERNIE 5.5 Flash Base: a 280-billion-parameter MoE model pre-trained on 33.5 trillion tokens, shipped deliberately without fine-tuning, so developers can take it wherever they want. The article Baidu releases ERNIE 5.5 Flash Base with 280…

+1 more story from 1 other outlet
RepoGitHubNEWheat62

abouchedidxcode/open-source-hands

Make webcam hand games in the browser, or point your coding agent here and have it make one. MediaPipe hand tracking + a gesture engine + a starter game + a playbook.

180TypeScript28new this week
NewsMarkTechPostheat55

Ricursive AI Releases Ripple-65B Preview: A 65B Dense Open-Weight Model Scoring 80.5 on Terminal-Bench 2.1

Ricursive Intelligence just released Ripple-65B Preview . Ripple-65B Preview is a 65B dense open-weight model from Ricursive, pretrained from scratch for agentic coding. It is a general-purpose variant of the proprietary model behind Ricursive’s AI chip…

+1 more story from 1 other outlet
RepoGitHubheat62

FlashCat-Jordan/Flashduck

闪猫造物Flashduck — an open-source ESP32-S3 desktop duck robot with six servos, a single animated eye, wide-stance walking and two interaction systems (voice assistant / DuckClaw local agent).

166C5new this week
RepoGitHubNEWheat61

Jamailar/Weave-Office

One app for every document. Built for AI agents. An open-source desktop office suite written in Rust: documents, spreadsheets, slides, PDF, Markdown, code and rich text, opened, edited and saved in one row of file tabs. The same binary is…

148Rust22new this week
RepoGitHubheat60

glincker/awesome-selfhosted-ai

Curated list of self-hosted open-source AI: local LLMs, chat UIs, agents, MCP servers, RAG, speech and image generation. Health-checked weekly, dead projects removed automatically.

113JavaScript15new this week

02More from today’s issue

35 more stories, by section and heat.

Headlines 5

  1. Hugging Face’s CEO Says His P(Doom) Is ‘Close to Zero’NewsWIRED · · heat 33
  2. webAI Releases TwIL-8B, an 8.8B Reasoning Model Scoring 98.2 on MATH-500NewsMarkTechPost · · heat 29
  3. DeepSeek engineer defends push for open-source AGI despite higher risksNewsSouth China Morning Post · · heat 29
  4. Tencent unveils Hy4 as open-weight AI race with DeepSeek, Z.ai, Alibaba heats upNewsSouth China Morning Post · · heat 28
  5. Anthropic Releases FlashProve: Cryptographic Proofs That a Reply Came From Committed WeightsNewsMarkTechPost · · heat 21

From the labs 1

  1. An update on independent evaluatorsLabAnthropic · · heat 24

Models & Spaces 26

  1. sensenova/SenseNova-Loop-9B-PreviewModelHugging Face · trending · heat 74
  2. abenzerps/Qwen-Image-2.1-Turbo-QuantizedModelHugging Face · trending · heat 74
  3. DavidAU/Qwen3.8-27B-TURBO-Fable-Cold-Fusion-735-882-Heretic-Uncensored-NEO-CODER-MAX-MTP-GGUFModelHugging Face · trending · heat 74
  4. xiaomi-research/Xiaomi-OCR-0ModelHugging Face · trending · heat 73
  5. Edge0/Audio8-TTS-Realistic-AirModelHugging Face · trending · heat 73
  6. facebook/sam3ModelHugging Face · trending · heat 73
  7. microsoft/Mage-VL-CoworkModelHugging Face · trending · heat 72
  8. PrunaAI/P-H3-Image-ComfyModelHugging Face · trending · heat 72
  9. ccore/Qwen3.5-4B-GLB-3D-CoderModelHugging Face · trending · heat 72
  10. baidu/Unlimited-OCR-2ModelHugging Face · trending · heat 72
  11. webAI-Official/TwIL-8BModelHugging Face · trending · heat 71
  12. nvidia/NVIDIA-NemotronLabs-RE-USEModelHugging Face · trending · heat 71
  13. PrunaAI/P-H3-ImageModelHugging Face · trending · heat 71
  14. ISTA-DASLab/DeepSeek-V4.1-Flash-1017-GSQ-RCO-Coder-GGUFModelHugging Face · trending · heat 71
  15. baidu/ERNIE-5.5-Flash-BaseModelHugging Face · trending · heat 71
  16. MiniMaxAI/MiniMax-H3ModelHugging Face · trending · heat 70
  17. Pika-Labs/Pika-H3-Flex-Turbo-LoRAModelHugging Face · trending · heat 70
  18. pyannote/speaker-diarization-community-1ModelHugging Face · trending · heat 70
  19. Viggle/Viggle-RemakeModelHugging Face · trending · heat 70
  20. OliviaRossi/Minimax-h3_Singularity-x-10Eros-Max_PRISMModelHugging Face · trending · heat 69
  21. HauhauCS/Qwen3.8-27B-Uncensored-HauhauCS-Aggressive-MTP-GGUFModelHugging Face · trending · heat 69
  22. DavidAU/Qwen3.5-9B-The-Defiant-Fable-Uncensored-Heretic-NEO-IMATRIX-MAX-MTP-GGUFModelHugging Face · trending · heat 69
  23. autotrust/Qwen3.8-Flash-Next-E384-FP4-V2ModelHugging Face · trending · heat 69
  24. huihui-ai/Huihui-Qwen3.8-27B-abliterated-GGUFModelHugging Face · trending · heat 69
  25. LiquidAI/d1-2BModelHugging Face · trending · heat 69
  26. RikiyaT/Qwen3.5-0.8B-weight-space-programmingModelHugging Face · trending · heat 69

Community 3

  1. The architecture of open-weight LLMs: MoE, hybrid layers, ternary weightsThreadHacker News · · heat 42
  2. Dev Reverse Engineers Billion Dollar Harvey AI and Releases It Free, Open SourceThreadHacker News · · heat 27
  3. Revolut slashes AI coding costs 10x by cutting out Claude and going self-hostedThreadHacker News · · heat 25

03Earlier this week

The hottest Open-weights AI stories from the previous 5 issues.

  1. Tencent releases its Hy4 open-weight foundation model, which it says joins the top tier of Chinese open-weight AI for the first time, and plans a Flash versionNov 4, 2026 · NewsBloomberg · · heat 91 · 4 outletsAlso covered by South China Morning Post, Nikkei Asia, r/LocalLLaMA
  2. Hugging Face CEO Clément Delangue says his P(doom) is "close to zero", arguing that future AI risks stem from closed frontier AI labs, not open-source systemsNov 5, 2026 · NewsWired · · heat 91 · 3 outletsAlso covered by WIRED, TechCrunch
  3. Anthropic's Mythos-class model allegedly leaked on Hugging Face 💀Nov 1, 2026 · Threadr/ClaudeAI · · heat 83 · 3 outletsAlso covered by r/GeminiAI, Hacker News
  4. Ricursive releases Ripple-65B Preview, a general-purpose variant of its AI model for automating advanced chip design, under Apache 2.0, costing $0.60/1M outputNov 5, 2026 · NewsVentureBeat · · heat 83
  5. British fintech Revolut slashes AI coding costs 10x by cutting out Claude and going self-hostedNov 4, 2026 · Threadr/LocalLLaMA · · heat 82 · 2 outletsAlso covered by Hacker News
  6. Coding agents on a local model: Qwen 35B writes code at 346 tok/s on an M5 Max (Claude Code, Codex and opencode on Kapitsa)Nov 1, 2026 · Threadr/ChatGPTCoding · · heat 78
  7. Revolut sidelines Claude Code for a self-hosted Chinese model, says it pays 90% lessNov 4, 2026 · Threadr/LocalLLaMA · · heat 76
  8. abenzerps/Qwen-Image-2.1-Uncensored-QuantizedNov 3, 2026 · ModelHugging Face · trending · heat 75
  9. Imagineer13 Saves the Day! 0 Color drift! Degradation crisis over!Nov 4, 2026 · Threadr/StableDiffusion · · heat 75
  10. Nanbeige/Nanbeige4.3-33BNov 4, 2026 · ModelHugging Face · trending · heat 74
  11. Edge0/Audio8-TTS-Realistic-0.6bNov 1, 2026 · ModelHugging Face · trending · heat 74
  12. I textured an entire street in Blender with Qwen Image 2.1, then made cyberpunk, anime and papercraft versions of itNov 3, 2026 · Threadr/StableDiffusion · · heat 74
  13. PrunaAI/P-H3-Image-Comfy · Hugging FaceNov 4, 2026 · Threadr/StableDiffusion · · heat 74
  14. Just finished developing an open-source, browser-based 3D Catan alternative using Opus 5.5 in 2 weeks!Nov 5, 2026 · Threadr/vibecoding · · heat 74
  15. Mistral Large 4 Goes Open Weight at 1T ParametersNov 3, 2026 · NewsTechnology Org · · heat 73
  16. Official Statement: Qwen Models Will Stick to Open Source to the End!Nov 3, 2026 · Threadr/LocalLLaMA · · heat 73
  17. Viggle Remake: open weights for recasting / editing whole videos.Nov 5, 2026 · Threadr/StableDiffusion · · heat 73
  18. Efficient-Large-Model/Open-H3-Regenerate-2KNov 4, 2026 · ModelHugging Face · trending · heat 72
  19. divagr1925/Qwen3.5-4B-QwenputerNov 4, 2026 · ModelHugging Face · trending · heat 72
  20. Deepseek alone accounted for 53% of all (27 trillion) tokens on Openrouter yesterday. Open-weights labs totaling over 75% nowNov 5, 2026 · Threadr/LocalLLaMA · · heat 72
  21. Qwen3.8-27B has become unuseable recentlyNov 5, 2026 · Threadr/LocalLLaMA · · heat 72
  22. SSD MoE finally viable!Nov 5, 2026 · Threadr/LocalLLM · · heat 72
  23. Claude was laid offNov 4, 2026 · Threadr/LocalLLM · · heat 72
  24. Contribute instead of reinventingNov 5, 2026 · Threadr/LocalLLM · · heat 72
  25. A new, open-weights 278M PII detection model and reference benchmark [R]Nov 4, 2026 · Threadr/MachineLearning · · heat 72
  26. openbmb/MiniCPM-OCR-1.0Nov 4, 2026 · ModelHugging Face · trending · heat 71
  27. nvidia/MotionBricksNov 2, 2026 · ModelHugging Face · trending · heat 71
  28. MiniMaxAI/MiniMax-M3.1-FlashNov 1, 2026 · ModelHugging Face · trending · heat 71
  29. OpenAI and Anthropic are worried people will switch to local models, but they are practically asking for it at this pointNov 1, 2026 · Threadr/OpenAI · · heat 71
  30. RecursiveSI/flintNov 5, 2026 · ModelHugging Face · trending · heat 70
  31. nvidia/NVIDIA-Nemotron-3.5-Bolt-E4B-4GBNov 4, 2026 · ModelHugging Face · trending · heat 70
  32. google/embeddinggemma-2Nov 5, 2026 · ModelHugging Face · trending · heat 70
  33. Diffuspace/Clover-35B-A3B-PreviewNov 5, 2026 · ModelHugging Face · trending · heat 70
  34. OpenMOSS-Team/MOSS-Image-SFTNov 1, 2026 · ModelHugging Face · trending · heat 70
  35. XHToken/Spark-X2.6-4BNov 4, 2026 · ModelHugging Face · trending · heat 70
  36. maya-research/maya2-nativeNov 3, 2026 · ModelHugging Face · trending · heat 70
  37. Pretty happy with my local AI setup (M5 Max 128 GB)Nov 2, 2026 · Threadr/LocalLLM · · heat 70
  38. Best option for local models [D]Nov 1, 2026 · Threadr/MachineLearning · · heat 70
  39. Disgruntled software developers start ambitious open-source revolt, using AI to clone common services — OccupySaaS AI-powered project wants to kick Auth0, Salesforce, and other pricy service-as-software to the curbNov 5, 2026 · Threadr/vibecoding · · heat 70
  40. facebook/dinov3-vitl16-pretrain-lvd1689mNov 3, 2026 · ModelHugging Face · trending · heat 69
  41. used claude code to figure out how airpods 3 send head tracking data, turns out nobody had done it beforeNov 5, 2026 · Threadr/ClaudeAI · · heat 69
  42. [llama.cpp fork]: QFN + [specific quant] + [ultra specific hardware config] = [incredible and irreproducible pp and tg]Nov 4, 2026 · Threadr/LocalLLaMA · · heat 69
  43. paperclipai/paperclipNov 2, 2026 · RepoGitHub · trending · heat 68
  44. beenuar/AiSOCNov 1, 2026 · RepoGitHub · trending · heat 68
  45. Deep Principle Releases Hydrogen-1.0: A 753B Open-Weight Model for Scientific DiscoveryNov 4, 2026 · NewsMarkTechPost · · heat 68 · 2 outletsAlso covered by r/MachineLearning
  46. Easy to forget that many people have no idea that local AI exists…..at all.Nov 2, 2026 · Threadr/LocalLLM · · heat 68
  47. Looking for a fast, smart uncensored LLM for prompt generation on RTX 5070 Ti (16GB VRAM)?Nov 3, 2026 · Threadr/StableDiffusion · · heat 67
  48. New TurboH3 FL2VANov 5, 2026 · Threadr/StableDiffusion · · heat 67
  49. cjpais/HandyNov 1, 2026 · RepoGitHub · trending · heat 66
  50. Risk Management Tips For Cos. Deploying Open-Weight AINov 4, 2026 · NewsJD Supra · · heat 66
  51. I built a working V8 engine simulator with a local QFN NVFP4 model using OpenCode V2 (with engine sound)Nov 3, 2026 · Threadr/LocalLLM · · heat 66
  52. davemessew/AgentFluxNov 2, 2026 · RepoGitHub · · heat 65
  53. Xpropel/Pi-RemoteNov 3, 2026 · RepoGitHub · · heat 65
  54. daniel-madrid-07/weeping-of-the-empireNov 5, 2026 · RepoGitHub · · heat 64
  55. microsoft/VibeVoiceNov 5, 2026 · RepoGitHub · trending · heat 64
  56. ConardLi/garden-skillsNov 5, 2026 · RepoGitHub · trending · heat 64
  57. CopilotKit/OpenBotNov 1, 2026 · RepoGitHub · trending · heat 63
  58. "Wait - how am I still running?"Nov 4, 2026 · Threadr/LocalLLM · · heat 63
  59. Alleged Mythos Class "leak" is fake. Forensic Investigation inside.Nov 2, 2026 · Threadr/singularity · · heat 63
  60. I made a ComfyUI tool to bring back earlier scenes in H3 videos — my Open Source Higgsfield entryNov 2, 2026 · Threadr/StableDiffusion · · heat 63

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